Shakima Alston is seeking a position that utilizes her medical assisting and customer service skills. She has a Medical Assistant Certificate from Sanford-Brown Institute and experience working as a Medical Assistant at South Elliot/South Portland Comprehensive Medical Center and as a Home Health Aide at Personal Touch. Her current role is at Marshalls where she has cash handling, customer service, and retail experience. Alston has clinical skills like taking vital signs and phlebotomy as well as administrative skills like medical billing and coding.
1. Shakima Alston
1408 New York Ave • Apt# 6g • Brooklyn, NY 11210 • U.S.A. • (347) 290-4250 • shakim.alston86@gmail.com
OBJECTIVE To obtain a position which best utilizes and challenges my abilities and various skills.
EDUCATION Sanford-Brown Institute, New York, NY 12/2010-07/2012
Medical Assistant Certificate Program
Completed an intensive 900-hour program comprised of theoretical and practical applications of
essential Medical Assisting skills which include the following:
• Administrative Skills - MedicalOffice Procedures,Health Insurance Claims Processing, etc.
• Clinical Skills - Assessing Vital Signs, Biomedical Waste Disposal, Electrocardiography,
Clinical Asepsis, and CPR
• Laboratory Skills – Phlebotomy, Smear Procedures,Urinalysis, and Specimen Collection
• Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Pharmacology
EXPERIENCE Marshalls (flagship store) New York, NY 9/2013-Present
Dressing Room/Cashier/Sales Associate
• Hands on experience in accepting payments from customers and give change and receipts
• Highly skilled in using scanners,cash register, and calculators to calculate customers orders
• Proven record of using the right process for cash, credit cards,or other types of payments
• In depth knowledge of handling returns and exchange good
• Track record of greeting customers in a polite and friendly manner
• Able to bag and wrap customers purchases
• Demonstrated ability to assist customers to sign up for store rewards program and apply for credit
• Proven ability to answer customers questions and give information about company procedures
South Elliot/South Portland Comprehensive Medical Center Brooklyn,NY 5/2012-12/2012
Medical Assistant
• Interviewed patients to obtain medical information and measured vital signs
• Performed generaloffice duties
• Inventory and ordered medical, lab, or office supplies and equipment.
• Medical Billing and Coding.
• Completed requisition forms
• Assisted doctor with upper pelvic examinations
Personal Touch Jamaica, NY 11/2004-11/2012
Home Health Aide
• Provided in home care for patients
• Supplied patients with meals according to their diet
• Assisted patients to and from doctors appointments
• Provided hospice care
SKILLS • Clinical skills such as venipunctures, fingersticks, asepsis, urinalysis
• Type 45WPM